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NASB | Jude 1:23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Jude 1:23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy but with fear, loathing even the clothing spotted and polluted by their shameless immoral freedom. [Amos 4:11; Zech 3:2-4] |
Bible Question:
Hate my shirt? I'd like interpretations of Jude 1:22,23. Reading Jude: what a fierce indictment of falling away. The harsh tone is put in context by a sense of the preciousness of God's gift. So we are to embrace God's gift, recognize when it is being undermined, and finally --- at the end of the book --- reach out to the "wavering" with mercy. How are we to understand the 3 ways of showing mercy, especially the one that involves "hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies" ? |
Bible Answer: Hi Just Read Mark, May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to us. We have been called in God the Father, having been set apart, preserved for Jesus Christ. I believe that Jude would be an excellent book for our Jehovah's Witness friends and acquaintances and those who do not believe in the triune God to study. I have enjoyed your conversation with Radioman2. 1) When we speak of God's gift of grace we can look to one of the key verses of Jude, verse 4. I believe that we can contrast that verse with John 4:10. John 4:10, "Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God/, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink', you would have asked (Him), and He would have given you living water." Who is this "it"? I like the literal translation found in the Interlinear Greek-English New Testament with Jay P. Green, Sr, Editor. Jude 4, "For certain men stole in, those of old having been written before to this judgment, ungodly ones perverting the grace of God (it) into unbridled lust, and denying the only Master, God, even our Lord Jesus Christ." [Words in parentheses in this literal translation are words that are "understood" in the Greek.] 2) I believe that another key verse is number 24, "Now to (Him) who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,..." We are the called, beloved in (God) the Father. We are kept for Jesus Christ, verse 1, our only God and Savior, verse 25. The parentheses are mine for comparison. 3) I believe as one who is a "counter of pronouns" that this book can be rightly interpreted and have a total of pronouns that is divisible by three. To my mind that is a glory to our triune God. From the heart, Ray |